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Relations of Environmental Change to Angiosperm Evolution During the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary

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That morphology of the vegetative body of plants has been—and is continuing to be—shaped by environmental factors is a generally accepted concept. If so, then environmental change must be a significant factor in morphological change in plants. Morphological (used here in the broad sense to include anatomical) change can be equated to evolutionary change, at least relative to the vegetative body of plants.

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Wolfe, J.A. (1997). Relations of Environmental Change to Angiosperm Evolution During the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary. In: Iwatsuki, K., Raven, P.H. (eds) Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65918-1_13

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